Brotherhood

Come, brothers all!Shall we not wendThe blind-way of our prison-worldBy sympathy entwined?Shall we not makeThe bleak way for each other’s sakeLess rugged and unkind?O let each throbbing heart repeatThe faint note of another’s beatTo lift a chanson for the feetThat stumble down life’s checkered street.

Credit

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on September 12, 2015, by the Academy of American Poets.

About this Poem

“Brotherhood” was published in Bronze: A Book of Verse (B.J. Brimmer Company, 1922).

Author

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in the late nineteenth century.